Arbella

they teach you the golden rule, treat others how you want to be treated, but in a pinch you can apply the silver rule (be kinda selfish because you’ve earned it) or even the bronze rule (manipulate others purely for your benefit).

There's also the stone rule: Just start hitting people.

that’s right

We have an improvement! The notifications on my dash are still perpetually stuck on 15, but it's working like normal (other than showing 15) when I click on it. My posts and reblogs still fail half the time and I keep getting an autosave error notice while writing this, but hey tumblr is slightly more normally usable. Spaghetti code-ass website.

I've been dealing with that failure stuff for months too on PC too. Even simple actions like Liking and voting on a poll generally take two or three attempts to work. And now this week I'm getting logged out of the site every day and have to use my two factor authentication to log back in.

Whew, glad it hasn't gone that far for me...yet. And it's not like it's an account thing, since it works perfectly normally on my laptop.

baby i’ve got half finished wips you couldn’t even imagine

choosing to ignore my weirdly symbolic dream because i have a lot going on rn already

you learn something new everyday. unless you're a historian. then you learn something old

i think the most upsetting thing about american-flavor puritanism is how fucking patronizing it is. it's 2026 but the whole world still has to deal with a cultural hegemony grown from the gnarled vestiges of victorian-era paternalism. tax-paying adults with passports and the right to vote are treated like wayward children because of the antiquated idea that authorities must protect the weak minds of the unwashed masses from depravity and corruption. the average american can send a fellow citizen to the chair, but they can't piss in a ditch without being declared an outlaw. american entertainment media is saturated with sex, but you can't talk about it online without getting your account suspended. it's such blatant censorship at a universal scale, but because sexual content is framed as inherently dangerous, this restriction on basic adult autonomy, this blanket denial of moral and intellectual adulthood, can be reframed as protection, an expression of care, a moral duty. "won't someone think of the children!" I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN! I AM A GROWN MAN!